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Pendleton, Oregon, Thursday, September 18, 1010
LET 'ER BUCK
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GREAT PAINS TO POT
LLY DISABLED MEN IN
More Liberal Law Needed to Come up to Provisions Made
for Men by Canadian Government-
WASH1NGTON, D. C Working to and nearly all of them will have com-
overctlne the handicaps of men In
jured In the war, the federal govern
ment ts making giant strides to place
the vocationally disabled soldier back
In the economic ranks of the country,
able to compete with other "whole"
men and to earn an Independent In
come for himself. The plan of the
Federal Board for Vocational Educa
tional Education, which has this
Work In hand. Is a broad one, and
though no actual figures are yet avail
able it is likely that as many as 60,
000 men who served In the war will
have to be re-educated either voca
tionally or occupational.
Under this plan the federal board
Is now working on what is practically
rour-year program though appro-
pleted work for vocational and oo
cupational rehabilitation by the sum
mer of 1913. By far the majority of
the men to be rehabilitated will have
finished their retraining within a
year or two years, some of them ill
less than six months, and will be back
on their feet in that time in profes
sional and industrial ranks.
So far no provision has been made
by congress for rehabilitating men
whose disabilities do not amount to a
I vocational or occupational handicap.
it is believed possible here by those
best informed on reconstruction leg
islation that congress may yet be
asked to provide some means of com
pensatory training aa well as the
compensation - they already paid I reoort states.
133,000 men and has actually sur
veyed and Interviewed 110,135 sol
diers, sailors and marines injured In
service during the war. The major
ity of these will not be able to obtain
retraining under the act of congress
as It now stands, even with Recent
amendments. All of the men more
than 10 per cent disabled will re
ceive money compensation to the ex
tent to which they are disabled, but
only those whose disabilities means a
handicnp to them In the occupation or
vocation they followed or in ordinary
lines of work can be re-trained and
fitted for a new trade or profession.
Of those already Interviewed 14,876
have been approved for training and
7358 of these have actually been plac
ed In training. Several thousund ad
ditional men will have been approved
by October, and these, with the men
now waiting, will begin their school
ing when the schools re-open.
According to recent figures report
ed to the bureau of war risk Insurance
by the army 149,433 men have been
discharged from service with a disa
bility. "Only cases showing 10 per cent
disability have been reported." the
"At this rate it seems
priatlons so far hava been made only through the war risk bureau to men
up to July 1920. In another month, who have simply suffered physical
it is premised 17,000 men will be ap-. disabilities, without economlo loss to
proved to go Into immediate training them, in their country's service. To
with the opening for the fall terms of carry out such a program, it is esti
the professional and technical schools mated the federal government would
of the country. The forty or fifty
thousand men disabled In the service
of the country, will all be placed in
training for various lines of activity
have to expend upwards of a half-
billion dollars. ' . i4
To date, the vocational education
board has got In touch with some
probable that the total number of
cases of disability resulting fr n the
war and entitled to (monetary) com
pensation will be close to 200,000."
Thus far Candda has been the most
liberal of other countries in granting
re-training to its soldiers, but figur
ing on twice the percentage allowed
by Canana, and allowing an addition
al 60,000 disabled men from among
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the sailors and marines, it Is possible
that not more than 20 per cent of the
men disabled, or something less than
60,000 men will be eligible for voca
tional and industrial rehabilitation.
To keep within the written law It is
necessary that certain evidence be
gathered from the military records
and that the men to be approved be
physically examined. The board Is
making the most liberal possible In
terpretation of all cases coming be
fore It In many cases that do not
actually come within the law, but
where the board believes something
ought to be done. It has used special
funds given it by patriotic organisa'
Hons. A large revolving fund given
by the Elks fraternal organisation has
bnen largely used in ministering to
such cases.
A central case board has been es
tablished here to finally approve all
cases sent in by district boards. This
system is necessary becuuse the
board operating under a budget sys
tem of expense from congress. This
board reviews on an average of 1,
ooo cases a day. The majority of
these have to be rejected, though if
any more liberal laws should be pass
ed by congress in the future these
cases would be re-opened and it Is
supposed the majority of them
would then be approved. The docu
ments and evidence in the case, of
course, are carefully preserved,
that the expense of securing them
again will be minimized .
Should a more liberal law be passed
opening up possibilities for training
for such a group of men it to now es
timated it would take at least 3360,'
000,000 to pay the support, tuition
and text book cost alone.., Further
provision would have to be made fur
traveling expenses of the men, medl
cat attention and mechunicul appli
ances for equipment and administra
tion of the broader law. At present
the board Is paying the tuition, trav
eling expenses, text book cost and
other, special expenses for the men
it approves, in addition to paying
3100 to men with dependents and 380
a month to men without dependents
and family allowances to the former
class. '
The work of the board in reviewing
an application for re-trainlng consists
in finding out the legitimacy of the
claim, the particular manner in which
tse disability handicaps htm, the vo
cation or occupation he has formerly
followed, and then it decides with him
on what would be the best lines of
warned the men still in service that
new work to follow based on his par
ticular aptitude, his wishes, what he
is able to do with his new disabilities
and. the remunerative promise of the
classes of work open to him. But In
doing this it runs into many obstacles
such as missing discharge papers and
lot medical records that would show
the disability originated tn service.
The board -mnst have the man exam
ined to find out the character of the
disability and many of the men are
hard to get into touch with after dis
charge. There are other difficulties that
arise, but on the whole the coopera
tion between the board and the men
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